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How to build fire protective battery charger enclosure?
  • Y'know - I think stacking cinder blocks and some pavers on top would actually work just fine. Just angle the cinder blocks so the ones at the bottom have the holes poking out (and into the enclosure) and that should provide enough airflow to keep it from getting too hot in there.

    Heck, you could probably angle them all that way except for the top ones. I haven't seen videos of battery fires, but unless they're like really really flammable, the fire shouldn't burn out from around the several inches of concrete that surrounds it.

    Remember fire burns up so the pavers and concrete blocks at the top will be what are actually blocking the most.

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  • Over the weekend my wife snapped a few pictures of our 22mo running around splashing in a lake wearing nothing except a shirt and a swim diaper. My wife was quite taken aback when she uploaded the photo to Facebook, and had the picture removed for nudity / inappropriate content. We all rolled our eyes and figured this was just an overtrained AI being an overtrained AI, but it's got me wondering - is this attire getting to the point at this age where it really is inappropriate, and I'm just too fuzzed out from taking care of babies to notice? Curious to hear ya'lls thoughts.

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    What if cars grew from use - like animals. A lot of people with big/small vehicles today would be flipped around.
  • And then there's those of us who stick 8-foot boards diagonally through their Honda Civics so a couple inches are sticking out the front passenger and rear driver windows.

    Coincidentally, by far the most use my dad's pickup truck bed gets is when I borrow it from him to really load up at Home Depot.

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    Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?
  • It probably is that popular among this crowd. There's options to self-host your own Bitwarden instance IIRC.

    I've started migrating away from LastPass and am using Bitwarden for new projects personally. LastPass is way better than nothing, but I wouldn't recommend LastPass over Bitwarden these days.

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  • readwrite.com China Imposes Export Curbs on High-Tech Metals Amidst Trade Tensions with the US

    China will be imposing regulations on the export of gallium and germanium, which are metals that are used in the production of computer chips.

    According to a recent announcement, China will be imposing new regulations on the export of gallium and germanium, both of which are metals that are utilized in the production of computer chips and solar cells and are therefore vitally important. This action is seen as an escalation of the trade dispute that the United States and China are currently engaged in, and the trade dispute has been going on for a long time. The restrictions will begin to take effect on August 1, and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has stated that their purpose is to “safeguard national security.” Despite this, the specifics of these limitations have not yet been made available to the public at this time.

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    5 months, 27 days old, and out of nowhere she's suddenly letting "Dadadadada"'s loose all over the place! She's not even doing any mamama's yet! I've been on cloud 9 all evening. My wife is utterly devastated.

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    Vapor barrier when repairing only a section of drywall?
  • If it were me and everything else was fine every-wise, I'd try to match with what's already there. Go with what works and sit back with the peace of mind that you won't have to rip open your drywall a third time.

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  • This year my wife and I have 2 under 2. We're both pretty fried right now, and other than getting together a bit in the afternoon with some family I don't think we'll be doing much of anything. That's plenty ok with me, but I still like living vicariously through other dad's weekend plans!

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  • I'm pretty positive my parents haven't grout sealed their shower since they bought their house, so it's been at least, oh..... 27 years for them?

    I mean, not that I recommend going this long, as now as their dutiful and caring adult child I'll likely be the one taking it upon myself to completely regrout the whole thing, but goes to show how long you could go with things probably being mostly okay.

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